Paris Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal 3354

Manuscript Identification

Reference Number

Fr29

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal

Siglum / Shelfmark

3354 (formerly 245 B. L. F.)

Page / Folio range

3r-58v

Textual Content & Tradition

Standardised title of narrative

Sept Sages de Rome

Version (siglum)

Overlap of Versions A and L

Language Group within Version

French A/L Overlap

Source for textual relationship

Runte, Society of the Seven Sages Portal (2014)

Languages

Language of text

Old French

Digitisation & Editions

Modern Editions

Runte, Les sept sages de Rome: An On-Line Edition of French Version A (2006)

Note

Note on grouping:

- Runte (2014) lists this as a Version A text.

- Arlima lists this as a Version A text (following Runte).

- Coco (2016) lists this as a Version A text (following Arlima).

- JONAS lists this as a Version L text, possibly following Aïache-Berne.

- Gaston Paris (1876) says, 'Je ne puis m’expliquer la composition de ce texte qu’en admettant que le copiste avait à sa disposition un ms. de L fort endommagé vers la fin.’ Paris continues, noting that the story ''Filia'' is missing, replaced with an allusion to ''Sapientes'', and that despite following L closely for the majority of the text, the end of the narrative exactly mirrors the details and structure of A instead.

Authorship & Production

Date of Production

1400 - 1500

Source of Date of Production

BNF catalogue: https://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cc840610

Physical Description

Material

Paper

Total pages / folios

118

Height

292

Width

194

Prose or verse

Prose

Illustrations

No

Contents & Additional Texts

Other texts in the Manuscript

3 - 58v: Sept Sages de Rome
59 - 60: Débat de l'amoureux et de la mort
60r - 109r: Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne
115v - 118v: Office de connétable

Catalogues & Research Literature

Catalogue

Modern Research Literature

Paris (1876), Le Roux de Lincy (1838), Coco (2016), Berne-Aïache (1966), Berne-Aïache (1977), Runte, Wikeley, Farrell (1984), Foehr-Janssens (1994)

Embedded Stories in This Manuscript

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Arbor – The Tree	1	Empress
Canis – The Faithful Dog	2	Bancillas	Baucillas
Aper – The Boar and the Fruit	3	Empress
Medicus – The Doctor	4	Auguste
Gaza – The Treasure	5	Empress
Puteus – The Well	6	Lentulus
Senescalcus – The Seneschal	7	Empress

Research Material

Has Research Material Title	Has Research Material Link	Has Research Material Description